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“There is everywhere the vigorous and masculine winter air, and the impalpable sustenance the mind draws from all natural forms.”
- Source
- Winter Sunshine
- Date
- 1875
Meaning of “There is everywhere the vigorous and masculine winter…”
Burroughs describes winter landscape as mentally sustaining, suggesting that austere natural forms can nourish attention even when seasonal abundance is absent.
Where does it come from?
Winter Sunshine, “The Exhilarations of the Road.” “Masculine” is Burroughs’s nineteenth-century descriptive adjective in this sentence; this collection preserves rather than modernizes the historical wording.
